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A Ruston Hotel Suffers Significant Water Damage

On I-20 nestled between Monroe and Shreveport is the busy junction of Ruston, LA. This commercial hub offers many hotels and motels for truckers, travelers, and vacationers. When a damaging water event occurs, it can have an economic impact on a hotel's bottom line and also disrupt the plans of many individuals.

SERVPRO received an emergency call recently to clean up, restore, and repair the effects of an unwanted water leak. A water supply line to a toilet had ruptured on the third-floor of a hotel in Ruston. The water reacted to the laws of gravity and flowed down the verticle tower wetting the second and first stories, also. The path of the water resulted in varying degrees of water damage to the ceilings, walls, floors, and contents of many units.

Our SERVPRO WRT water damage restoration technicians, along with a project manager, assessed the damage visually and also took baseline moisture readings from dry areas of the hotel to compare to the discovered wet areas using infrared cameras and moisture sensors and meters. The blue tape xx's on the walls indicate very damp conditions to the drywall panels and the wall cavities. Crew members already started a controlled demolition of dangerously hanging ceiling material, and constructed containment barriers in the corridors to restrain the dust and debris. Pictured are some of our drying devices--air movers to increase the rate of evaporation and LGR low grain refrigerant dehumidifiers to condense the water vapor.

The After Photo depicts a technician reinstalling mounting hardware after drying goals have been achieved, verified, and documented with our industry-leading devices. New drywall can now be installed after the gutting and disposing of the non-salvageable materials. By careful planning and scoping of this large commercial water damage project, we mitigated the damages, kept costs in line with the budget, and within two weeks had the water damaged rehabilitated rooms back in service.

Many large commercial buildings owners, municipal agencies, and property management companies rely upon the excellent execution from inspection to a final result from our SERVPRO of Monroe/West Monroe franchise.  "Like it never even happened."

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